[UPDATE (9:48 p.m. ET):  Cruz appeared on Hannity’s show Thursday night.  Hannity, repeating the outdated lie:  “You went and you took your daughters to Cancun and you came back.  I think you can be a father and the Senator of Texas all at the same time and make a roundtrip quick, drop off, trip, and come home.”

“Well, well, Sean, that’s right,” Cruz said.  Cruz did not correct Hannity on the lies he told earlier, nor did Cruz admit that he lied before.  Five minutes into the interview, Cruz slipped in, “I had initially planned to stay through the weekend and work remotely there, but as I was headed down there I started to have second thoughts almost immediately because with the crisis in Texas, you need to be here on the ground.”  Apparently, that didn’t occur to him while he was planning, paying for, and boarding the flight.]

From his broadcast Thursday, Sean Hannity defended Senator Ted Cruz’s (R-Quintana Roo) romp down to Cancun repeating an excuse Cruz himself has disavowed after reporting exposed his lie.

“Now of course, many on the left are currently vilifying Ted Cruz today for flying his family down to Cancun and back,” Hannity whined. “Senator Cruz dropping off his daughters for a trip with their friends.  He’s right back in Texas.”

Obviously, Hannity missed Cruz’s statement after his return from Cancun in which he said he had intended to stay with his family in Cancun through the weekend, and that his wife arranged the trip, not friends of their daughters’.

As the network Hannity calls “fake news CNN” reported: “‘I started having second thoughts almost the moment I sat down on the plane, because on the one hand, all of us who are parents have a responsibility to take care of our kids, take care of our family. That’s something Texans have been doing across the state,’ said Cruz, who had said in an earlier statement that he flew to Mexico because his daughters had asked to take a trip and he was trying to be a ‘good dad.'”